H. L. Mencken: Prejudices Vol. 2 (LOA #207): Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series (Library of America H. L. Mencken Edition)

Mencken was a cultural critic at the beginning of the 20th century in the United States between 1917 to 1926. He went after the authors, artists and trends that he felt unworthy of praise, yet he attacked with spirit and charm that is rare today. Mencken criticized what he felt to be American provincialism and hypocrisy, and defended writers and thinkers he saw as forerunners of a new truthfulness and maturity. Full of savage wit and relishing wordplay, Mencken's style remains a unique tour over a vast thematic territory: literature and journalism, politics, sex and marriage, food and drink, art, the absurdities of Prohibition and the dismal state of American higher education, and the relative merits of Baltimore and New York. He addressed issues to Americans of the day, the Communists and leftist, conservatives and fascists. A great tour de force of criticism.

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Vale quanto detto per il primo volume, scrittore da leggere e rileggere per capire l'America (anche quella di oggi Trump)